[Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

Goswin von Brederlow goswin-v-b at web.de
Tue Jul 15 09:41:52 UTC 2008


Bastian Blank <waldi at debian.org> writes:

> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 09:53:25PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
>> What are the plans for Xen for lenny? Is this situation likely to change
>> before the release?
>
> It will ship the hypervisor and a domU kernel. For dom0 it will need
> either the etch or my own[1] kernel. This may be changed later if we can
> get a new kernel in the stable release.
>
> Bastian
>
> [1]:
> deb http://kernel-archive.buildserver.net/debian-kernel/waldi/xen-extra all main

Could I suggest adding a linux-2.6.18 package to lenny that builds a
dom0 kernel?

Otherwise lenny XEN support would be limited to the lifetime of
old-stable unless a point release adds a xen dom0 kernel image later
on.

MfG
        Goswin



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